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Chavez’s Daughter + Allende’s Grandson = LOVE

10:45 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Chile| Chismes| Latin America| Venezuela · 2 Comments

7 May 2009

It’s not often that we hear about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s personal life or family, but this latest bit of chisme about Huguito’s daughter is quite interesting. It seems that María Gabriela Chávez is dating the grandson of slain Chilean president Salvador Allende, Pablo Sepúlveda Allende. Chavez introduced the couple this week on his weekly TV show, Aló Presidente. Spain’s El País reports:

“Pablo!”, exclaimed the Venezuelan leader, embracing [him] told said that [he] was “a Chilean doctor, María’s partner and the grandson of Salvador Allende”, who he regularly says he admires and calls “the martyr president.”

The Venezuelan press had recently reported that the journalist, second daughter from Chavez’s first marriage, had managed to convince Sepúlveda Allende that he leave the medical center where he worked in the Chilean city of Coquimbo, opened by his grandfather who was also a doctor, to reside in Venezuela.

Might this be the making of a Latin American left political superfamily?

Via / El País

A Dictator Gets a Museum

7:55 am By Maegan La Mala · Chile| history · Comments Off

21 Dec 2008

There is no museum yet for the thousands that were disappeared or killed under his 17 year dictatorship, yet Augusto Pinochet has a museum in his honor in Santiago de Chile.

2244 O’Brien Street is one of the Chilean capital’s most controversial addresses: the former home of one of South America’s most notorious dictators, General Augusto Pinochet.

Today, two years after the death of the notorious dictator, the house is opening as a visitor attraction.

Displays include an extensive collection of model soldiers, a throne-like chair used for afternoon breaks, treasured statues of Napoleon, and the uniform Pinochet wore when leading the 1973 coup that overthrew the Marxist president Salvador Allende.

The centrepiece of the museum, in the affluent neighbourhood of Vitacura, will be the general’s fully restored office. The rest of the exhibit comprises display cabinets filled with military awards and gifts received from around the world, including a samurai sword from Japan and – oddly, given famously tense relations – a medal from Cuba.

The permanent exhibition has been is funded by the Pinochet Foundation, which was established in 1995 to promote the former president’s legacy and is now based at the house. Their target markets are, according to the foundation director, Major General Luis Cortes Villa, foreigners and young people.

Young people, meaning those who didn’t grow up under a dictatorship or know what it was like know someone who was disappeared. Seems like the idea is to rewrite history and make Pinochet, just another Chilean President.

Via / The Guardian

Everything is Under Control

7 Sep 2008

Nezua, who was at the front lines of the power trip show that was the reaction to the protest cries at outside the RNC, has some amazingly scary images of police presence. Then I came across this image, and the similarities were striking.

The line given to us living in the United States is that it’s for our protection, our safety, our order, so that we can go one with our lives, meaning swallowing whole the lies fed to us via the primetime coverage. But who is included in this Our?

9-11 : One Date – Multiple Tragedies

10:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile| New York City| Politics| history · 2 Comments

11 Sep 2006

Part of the personal struggle I deal with on 9-11 is the straddling of grief and confronting the egocentrism that is United States culture. In general people in the United States have short term memory. Selectively people remember and claim dates and tragedies as if they belonged to no one else before them. 9-11 is one of those dates.

Five years ago today I was on my way to my job in the financial district of Manhattan, blocks away from the World Trade Center. A man came into the subway at one point yelling something about planes hitting the Twin Towers. As one of a trainful of jaded New Yorkers, I ignored him. As long as the subways were still running , nothing was really wrong.

Allende’s Final Moments Interpreted in NYC

1:03 pm By Maegan La Mala · Chile| Events| New York City| history| theatre · Comments Off

21 Apr 2006

I spent 70 minutes last night in el Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago de Chile sharing Salvador Allende’s final moments on September 11, 1973. Colombian actor Ramiro Sandoval plays the first democratically elected Socialist president of the Americas in the stage production, Allende:The Death of a President now showing at the Theater for the New City in the Lower East Side of New York City. They say that before you die, your entire life flashes before your eyes. Argentino-Americano journalist and current editor of the New York Daily News Spanish language weekly, la Hora Hispana, has wriiten a monologue that imagines what Allende was thinking in the hours leading up to his death including reflections on his life as a political leader, husband, and father.

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